Electric hair-curler



M. MILLER.

ELECTRIC HAIR CURLER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. |920.

1,400,305. Patented Deu. 13, 1921.

UNITED sr-A'rs MAIRIE MILLER, 0F OTTAWA., ONTARIO, CANADA.

ELECTRIC HAIR-CURLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Pacente Dec. 13, 1921.

Application led March 22, 1920." Serial No. 367,790.v

To all whom t ma@ concern Be it known that I, MARIEMILLER, a subject of the Kin of Great Britain, a resident of the city of ttawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Hair-Curlers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in electric hair curlers, and the objects of the invention are to permit of the desired number of curls being curled in a sin le operation, that is to say to permitA o the hair being divided into strands and each strand wound on a separate curler and then all the curlers heated electrically at one time, to uniformly distribute the heat among all the curlers, to permit of the curler being attached to any standard light socket.

Further objects still are to render the curlers easy 'to handle, to prevent the hair becoming detached from the curlers, during the curling operation, and generally to adapt the curlers to better perform the functions reqnired of them.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consistsessentially of the improved construction particularly described and set forth in the following specication and accompanying drawings forming part of the same.

In the drawings:

Figure l is an enlarged view of one of the curlers and showing the means atttaching the same to a light socket.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the ini- .proved curler.

Fig. 3*.,is a longitudinal section through for holding the elastic in position.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a socket con-- nection whereby the curlers are connected to main wires designed to be attached to a lamp socket.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings; A'represents one of the improved curlers comprising a casing 10 on one end of which a rin 11 is threaded, the opposite end of the casing ,10

being closed as shown at l2.

In the casing 10 a heating coil or resistance 13 is housed, and a plug 14 fits the open end of the casing 10, and through this plug 14 a pair of Wires 15 and 16 extend to engage with the terminals 17 and 18 of the resistance 13. The wires 15 and-M16 have their op ositel ends connected to a socket 19. v

twill be readily understood that this socket 19 is a multiple type that is to say a sufficient number of pairs of wires extend therefrom to be connected to an equal number of curlers to be used.

Coacting with the socket 19 is a socket 2O from which the main Wires 21 extend, and these main wires 21 are connected to a standard screw plug 22, which may be threaded into an ordinary light socket commonly used in households.

The strand of hair to be curled is twisted around the outer periphery of the casing 10, and to hold the hair in coiled position, I provide a pair of longitudinally extending elastic members 23, one end of each of which engages with the threaded ring 11 on diametrically opposite sides thereof and an outer ring or cap 24 is pressed over the inner ring ll, and frictionally embraces the ends of the elastic 23 between the outer cap and the inner ring. d

The other ends of the elastic members 23 are embraced between an inner and outer cap 25 and 26 and the inner cap embraces the closed end of the casing 10.

When the hair is coiled around the casing 10, the elastic members 23 will' engage with ythe hair, and when the cap 25 is engaged with the end of the casing 10 the members 23 will holdthe hair in position.

When the curling operation is completed the caps 25 and 26 'are removed as a unit from the end of the casing 10 so liberating the elastic members 23 from engagement -with the coil of hair, and the casing 10 "may `then Vbe pulled longitudinally. through thecoilmof hair which is left-in a curled condition Invusin cnrler the lhair is divided into acertain. number of strands dependingI upon the number of curls desired, and each strand is then coiled around the casing 10 of the individual curler.l

' Each coil of hair is then engaged by the elastic members 23 of its curler and so prevent the hair uncoiling, and, when the desired number of curlers are in commission, the operator engages the plug 22 with an ordinary standard screw light socket,

thus heating the resistances of each curler, and so curling the several strands of hair.

When the heating o eration is completed, the plug 22 is remove from the socket and each coil of hair is disengaged from its curler.

In this way the curling operation is completed in asingle heating operation, and there is n0 possibility of singeing and otherwise destroying the hair during this curling operation, and the desired temperature is always obtainable. Moreover the several parts can be constructedof material best suited for the purposeLso that the ope-rator will not et shocks or burn her fingers.

As many c anges could be made in the above construction and many widely different embodiments of my invention within the scope of the claims, Lconstructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A hair curler of the class described ent member, a pair of concentrically arranged caps between which a portion of the resilient member is frictionally retained,

the ends of the resilient member extending longitudinally of the casing but on opposite sides thereof, a cap for the open end of the casing designed to secure the free end of the resilient member to the casing, and a heating element Within the casing.

2. A hair curler of the character described comprising a cylindrical heating element, a cylindrical casing ysurrounding the same, a retaining member adapting to support the hair on the casing comprising a pair of longitudinally extending elastic members, caps engaging the opposite ends of the elastic members and adapted to fit around the ends of the casing.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

MARIE MILLER.

Witnesses: I 1

RUSSEL S. SMART, J AMES MrrcHnLL. 

